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Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Zamir: Gaza City offensive contributes to IDF’s ‘moral and most important mission’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir held an assessment in Gaza City this morning amid the military’s major offensive in the city, and visited one of the divisions carrying out the fight there against Hamas, the military says.
“On your shoulders rests the mission to deepen the strike against Hamas and to defeat the Gaza City Brigade, in order to carry out the moral and most important mission, the return of all the hostages home and the collapse of Hamas’s military and governing capabilities,” Zamir says during the assessment, according to remarks provided by the IDF.
Zamir held the assessment with Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor, 98th Division commander Brig. Gen. Guy Levi, and other officers.
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